by Working Forest | Jun 24, 2015 | Archives
In her latest report, released today to the legislative assembly, Auditor General Kim MacPherson concluded that while expenditures on silviculture activities over the past 30 years will contribute to increases in the future timber supply, there are deficiencies in the...
by Working Forest | Jun 24, 2015 | Archives
Trading textbooks for tools of the trade, first year Selkirk College Forest Technology Program students wrapped up their semester in the bush. Though outdoor work in the natural surroundings of the West Kootenay is a fixture of the nationally accredited two-year...
by Working Forest | Jun 24, 2015 | Archives
Glenn Sollitt and the federal Green Party have got this one right. Almost. Sollitt, the Green Party candidate for the Courtenay-Alberni riding, sent us a letter to the editor last week, extolling the value of Vancouver Island sawmills. More accurately, Sollitt was...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
UCLUELET – Economic and employment opportunities in the Barkley sound region are being enhanced by a new community forest agreement announced today by Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson. The Barkley community forest agreement will...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) says the recommendations by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources on transforming the forest sector will help the industry reach the ambitious goals of its Vision2020. The committee report is...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
In the 60 years since Bob Jordan III joined his family’s North Carolina sawmill business, he hasn’t seen anything quite like the Canadian invasion of the South’s lumber industry. “You didn’t have people coming in from the outside — we never had this before,”...
